Trees for Soldiers is a month long project starting the Friday after Thanksgiving and runs right up to Christmas.  We provide Christmas trees at no charge to military men and women.  This year on December 8th the Boston Bruins Foundation will be here from 1-3 to show their support for our organization and to spread the word about this program.

studentjobs.fitchburgstate.edu connects Fitchburg State students with local businesses looking for part-time help. On the student jobs website, students can search/apply for jobs and businesses can submit their part-time job openings for review by the university. The service is free for both students and businesses.

Interested businesses should visit studentjobs.fitchburgstate.edu to create a profile and post their available jobs. For more information, they can contact the Director of Career & Advising Centers Erin Kelleher at or 978-665-3151.

New Beginnings Home Care would like to share this exciting news with all of you. We are so happy to announce that we are officially moving to a bigger space. Since growing so rapidly and adding more staff to the office, and hiring more aides. This building is going to be perfect and this will be our new home for a long time. With this move we are going to be able to accommodate every need that is requested.

We are officially moving as of this weekend. We will definitely be up and running for Monday, October 30^ta, 2017. We will not be interrupting any services for all the care we provide to our elders.

Our telephone number and fax number is going to stay the same.

Our new address is:

368 Central Street

Leominster, Ma 01453

Once we are all settled in we will be scheduling an open house for all of the case managers, supervisors and also including our aides.  It’ll be coming soon.

Feel free to stop by before then to check out our new home.

I would just like to thank you so much for your support.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

With an opening on Saturday, Nov. 4, three fascinating local artists will present works all in the waxy medium of encaustic, yet each approaching it by way of her own distinctive aesthetic. Each artist has a different take on the possibilities of this remarkable medium.

Painter Kellie Weeks considers herself an abstract, not a representational, artist. Indeed her paintings are dynamic studies of pure color, light, and form. She has spent a number of years experimenting with various media but now is focusing on encaustics, incorporating dry pigments, metal leaf, shellac, and other materials. The medium gives her a means of expression of unsurpassed quality, depth, and brilliancy.

Ms. Weeks is continually seeking to make her insights into a transcendent world concrete and permanent, searching for what Mark Rothko called “an anecdote of the spirit.” As in her “Memory Series” of paintings, she explores the world of memories that undoubtedly change over time and which take on something of a life of their own in our dreams. The work seeks to express “what’s lost and what’s remembered,” that tension between our thoughts and feelings that may always be near the surface and those that may remain deep within us, influencing us in sometimes mysterious ways.

Paintings such as “A Place of Rest” indeed express harmony and balance, with the colors and shapes complementing each other. In other pictures, by contrast, various elements seem to be competing. “Holding Ground,” for example, seems to be the site of a battle among various shapes and colors. The artist appears to have dripped some pale yellow wax on top of already cured layers, but the little streams of yellow wax are somewhat jarringly horizontal, not vertical! Obviously at time of dripping the molten wax ran down from what at that stage must have been the top of the picture. Once it solidified, the finished painting showed us wax dripping “across” the canvas, not down, as it would have to do in a more mundane, predictable world. This defiance of gravity is audacious enough, but then stark, thick bands of yellow and red seem to be just as defiant and uncooperative. Even so, the lines are all encountering each other at right angles, all verticals and horizontals, so that a “logical” pattern seems to appear amid the chaos.

Ms. Weeks received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bradford College in 2001. She has exhibited nationally in many juried and group shows, and in 2011 was included in a group show called “Imagination” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jeanne Borofsky has a wonderful work ethic: “I like to have fun when I work,” she says. “Combining two of my favorite activities—folding origami and painting with wax, I construct images that explore the use and interaction of color with whimsical references to my dreams and fantasies.”

This is evident in some of the paintings she will be showing at this exhibition. A number of these involve the intricate origami structures that take on color and life from the hot wax layered overall. In the mix, various personalities—Ms. Borofsky likes to call them “creatures”—appear in unexpected places. In “Home Sweet Home,” for example, viewers may find two persons, one a giant and one a “normal”-sized person who nevertheless both seem to be creatures from another world. They don’t even seem quite at home in the castle itself, which is much more machine-like than organic, with various dials and ducts and main-boards showing (although some of the structure defies the techno-motif, plainly being made from tree branches).

In “City Block 1,” the structure appears to be literally a cube or a wood block but could also be a package, what with it carrying a postage stamp and a postmark superimposed. But once again the creatures so familiar to fans of Jeanne’s work appear. In this case it may be a diminutive brontosaurus poking its head out from the three pointed-roof houses that ride on top of the cube. Is this block meant to be stationary, a feature of the city—one block, to use another sense of the word, on the streetscape? Or is it a package, making its way all around the world, or anyway around the world of Jeanne’s imagination? One could make a case for both.

A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will take place at 8:45am and complimentary refreshments will be served.

We are truly excited and committed to continue playing a vital role in the Leominster community by assisting residents with their financial needs, and through our charitable and educational initiatives.

The newly built branch will offer a full-compliment of financial services and amenities including an Education Banking Center, iPad banking technology, complimentary internet access, a Drive-Up ATM and Teller, virtually unlimited parking and much more.

Additionally, as part of the Grand Opening Celebration, we will be raffling off an iPad mini 4 (128GB) each month during the months of November, December, and January.

We hope that you can stop by to meet the entire DCU Leominster team and help celebrate the opening of our new branch.